A complete orientation to the services, collections, symposia, exhibitions, and publications of the U.S. Holocaust Museum.
Includes coverage of services of the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center and The Center for Advanced
Holocaust Studies.
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"He had been maintaining a blog for years about his sexual exploits, writing of his cleverness at maintaining the façade of dedicated husband and father while prowling for men on the side..."
"Zero-tolerance drug policies in high schools, undercover officers soliciting marijuana from teens and sanctions involving the removal of support for education and employment are forcing young people into a hopeless maze of poverty and the criminal justice system."
Dave Eggers portrayed Abdulrahman Zeitoun as a peaceful, loving family man. Now the real-life "hero" of Eggers' book is sitting in jail for trying to murder his wife. This isn't the first time that cold, hard reality has shattered the benevolent image of a nonfiction literary character...
"Even in a year whose presidential race was utterly dominated by super PAC special interest cash, nothing tells the story of where the true authority in politics lies than a sitting senator leaving a top post in the national government to lead a corporate-funded think tank..."
"When you gaze upon a wall of hundreds of different girls performing endless sex acts, it seems like an especially poignant representation of modern overstimulation and never-ending consumption..."
"The current media marketplace isn't so friendly to baubles or trinkets; it demands empires. So the pint-size "Hobbit" must become a leviathan - a franchise..."
"It's a nearly note-perfect catalog that endures because it sounds like no other, and speaks directly to the vulnerable, romantic heart of all ages..."
"Alternatively dousing a department store in the masculine scent of rose maroc and the feminine scent of vanilla, he found that women bought less when the store smelled masculine, and men bought less when the store smelled feminine..."
"I didn’t just pick up Zubius, the chaotic neutral Bugbear Barbarian I developed throughout my basement-dwelling high school years, and let him have run of the book. That would be stupid..."
These guys have outsourced tens of thousands of jobs, but now all of the sudden when it comes to "tax reform" they're saying they have America's best interests at heart.
"There’s very little incentive from conservative audiences for policy; what gets them excited (and reaching for their wallets, in many cases) is partisan rhetoric, not policy..."
"As you watch the movie this year, take it not as a piece of sentimental fluff, but for what it can be, if not also what it is - a serious reminder of the sacrifices other people make for our comfort and contentment, a sometimes uncomfortable demonstration of the delicate balance between debt and charity and a portrait not of an angel who finally gets his wings but of a working man who never does..."
"Pictures and calendars featuring half-naked women will be stripped from Air Force work spaces and public areas in an attempt to combat the sexism and rape culture permeating the institution."
Hoax alert: Right-wing media are spreading a viral story that Planned Parenthood is teaching women how to hide evidence of domestic abuse with make-up. Of course, this is absolutely false...
Many in the media are saying that Jim DeMint was a "success" in the Senate for his role in empowering the Tea Party. Now that the Republicans are most isolated than ever... let's just hope DeMint keeps up his "good work" at the Heritage Foundation!
The payroll tax holiday gives every single American who collects a paycheck a tax cut -- $1,500 a year on average. Why aren't Democrats slamming Republicans for prioritizing tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans?
Believe it or not, this isn't a Stephen Colbert parody: Watch Bill O'Reilly and his guests discuss how abortion, gay rights and legalized drugs are part of the War on Christmas...
Terrifying: Politicians promise passage of the "Kill the Gays" legislation as a "Christmas gift" to the people of Uganda -- and are cheered by US-based religious leaders for this "inspirational moment."
"What DeMint has apparently figured out is that in today’s Republican universe there’s less of a relationship than ever between holding office and holding power. This is what the rise of insular conservative media has done. News is interpreted, talking points are developed and agendas are set on Fox News, talk radio and in the right-wing blogosphere..."
"Tim Cook may not be Steve Jobs, but the new Apple CEO proved this week that he is just as good as the old Apple CEO at getting the media to snap to attention....Who needs Steve Jobs? Real jobs are coming back to America!"
But that "good news" is a more complicated -- and a lot darker -- than you may think...
"We're hard-working people, but we're going though a bit of a financial crisis and my fiance's wealthy parents won't give us a little loan to get by. Is it wrong to be angry?"
"Yes, this is one of those archetypal American thrillers that starts with a couple of losers stuck in nowheresville with a garbage bag full of cash..."
"Those of us previously not embarrassed to be fans now regularly find ourselves hostages of Shonda Rhimes' sadistic skills, wanting to look away, powerless not to watch, punished for doing so..."
"I watched so many records receiving critical acclaim that were very derogatory to homosexuals. That and misogyny are still two very acceptable means of oppression in hip-hop culture. It's 2012... there needs to be some accountability."
Tolkien meets Thomas Kinkade: "The Hobbit's" hyper-real, high-tech glow "make it look like Sauron nuked the whole place eons ago and it's all a radioactive mutant paradise..."
"Most troubling, the data captured through automatic license plate recognition programs are being integrated with other personal data to provide the security state with ever more detailed profiles of ordinary Americans..."
"Even before conservatism betrayed itself so conspicuously, I’m not sure my right-wing teenage self thought conservatism was about deporting 12 million Latinos or supposing that people stupid enough to get sick when they can’t afford it should die..."
"If [Mitch] McConnell smiles at hearing the news Jim DeMint is leaving the Senate, he should remember Obi Wan Kenobi telling him . . . errrr . . . Darth Vader, 'If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.'"
We need a Wall Street watchdog who won't keep letting white-collar criminals off the hook: "It's time to reexamine the policy of settling with corporations without forcing them to admit wrongdoing." Amen.
"The race for governor of Virginia will be the marquee political contest of 2013, almost by default...and already the race is shaping up as the first major test of Tea Party-style conservatism in President Obama’s second term."
Here's how one state's race has massive implications for the rest of the country.